Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%
On Tuesday 23 June 2015 00:55:40 briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:16:50 +0100
>
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon 22 Jun 2015 at 03:50:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > On 22/06/15 12:48 AM, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > > >i really don't believe this is a driver issue anymore.
>
> wow- was I wrong. Turns out it was .
>
> > I think the drivers are put in /opt.
>
> yes they are.
>
>
> I can now print from other computers !!
>
> It turns out there are two driver packages i had to install,
>
> dcp8110dncupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb
> dcp8110dnlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb
>
> and I thought I had installed both of them, but I had not installed
> the lpr package (honest- I thought i had installed both of them).
>
> I do still have it connected to the USB port and eventually I need to
> get it back to ethernet, but that's ok. Now that I know it works I
> should be able to move it back to ethernet.
>
> I hope.
>
> So I believe the sum total of my problems were the following:
>
> * at one point i figured out that the lo interface was not coming up
> automatically, meaning i had no localhost. i have a bad feeling i
> don't have lo coming up auto because i think it causes problems with
> my network set-up. so i have to investigate, or obviously it's going
> to break on reboot.
>
> * i had a bug, or bugs, in my cupsd.conf (thanks Brian)
>
> * i didn't have the brother lpr package installed.
>
> * it's possible that there's still a problem with the printer being on
> ethernet, as of right now it's on USB (thank again Brian for that
> suggestion).
>
>
> Thanks very much everyone for your help !
>
>
> Brian
Moving it back to ethernet will likely result it its being noticeably
faster unless its set for duplex operation. My HL-3170-CDW speeds up
noticeably except for the multisecond lag while it pulls the paper back
in to re-route it thru and print the back side. I have it setup so I
can use either interface, but my usb is only 2.0 (old Asus board), much
slower at moving the data than the 100MBit ethernet connection.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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